About 19 million years ago, roughly 90% of the world's open-ocean sharks died off, and scientists don't know why.

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Scientists say 90% of the world's open-ocean sharks died off in mystery extinction event 19 million years ago

Ethiopia plans to begin generating power from its controversial Blue Nile River dam during the upcoming rainy season between June and August, the foreign ministry announced Thursday.
The $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is expected to collect 13.5 billion cubic meters of the Blue Nile River water in the rainy season, swelling its reservoir to 18.4 billion cubic meters, the ministry statement said.

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Ethiopia Set to Start Generating Power from Blue Nile Dam

The NEO Surveyor will use infrared sensors to locate the space rocks

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NASA approves asteroid-hunting space telescope to monitor near-Earth objects

In a new study, an international team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes a fossil skeleton of an ancient shark, which is assigned to a new, previously unknown genus and species. This rare fossil find comes from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England, a series of sed

New Species of Ancient Shark Discovered

A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team has taken a closer look at how nuclear weapon blasts close to the Earth’s surface create complications in their effects and apparent yields. Attempts to correlate data from events with low heights of burst revealed a need to improve the theoretica

New Look at Nuclear Weapon Effects for Near-Surface Detonations

A Spatiotemporal Symphony of Light Using an ultrafast transmission electron microscope, researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time,...The post Nano Optics Breakthrough: Researchers Observe Sound-Light Pulses in 2D Materials for the First Time appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Nano Optics Breakthrough: Researchers Observe Sound-Light Pulses in 2D Materials for the First Time

Novel method, developed by McGovern Institute researchers, may lead to safer, more efficient gene therapies. Gene editing, or purposefully changing a gene’s DNA sequence, is a powerful tool for studying how mutations cause disease, and for making changes in an individual’s DNA for therapeutic pur

Efficient Gene Therapy: A New Technique for Correcting Disease-Causing Mutations

Single-cell analysis of autopsy samples from COVID-19 patients shows how the lungs repeatedly tried, and failed, to repair themselves. Scientists from several hospitals and research...The post New Cell Atlas of COVID-19 Pathology Reveals How the Coronavirus “Wreaks Havoc in the Lungs” appeared first on SciTechDaily.

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